... laid siege to the citadel, till reason gave way, and John surrendered himself to the power of these two imps of darkness. palmistry, phisiognomy, and incantations—by prayer and reading from holy writ, they showed John that gold, not hundreds but thousands ...

... telling fortunes by casting nativities, Cupid's nosegays, dumb cakes, love's cordial, nine keys, physiognomy, cards, dice, palmistry, ring and olive branches, watches, chains. &c, together with full directions for choosing a husband, making the dumb speak ...

... they arrived in the time of Henry 111., they met the taste of the vulgar by pertended skill in astrology and the art of palmistry, bringing with them their native tricks of juggling. That the Gipsies are of the race mentioned can scarcely doubted, when ...

... in Vagrant Act :— Every person pretending to professi, j, tell fortunes, or using any subtle craft, means, or device, by palmistry or otherwise, to deceive and impose upon any of Majesty * subjects. 'The parties are well known in Cheltenham from their ...

... many inhabitants of Ulverston, the game called Mesmerism, which yon are well aware, as great a cheat, as the old game of palmistry, practised by the Fortune Tellers, and travellin- vagabonds. I have not attended the said exhibitions of humbuggery, but ...

... telling fortunes His dupes, chiefly women, were numberless. boasted before the bench of his ability to read future by palmistry and the cards, and threatened to spin spells round the witnesses who had given evidence against him ! Painter's Miseries ...